The Bodygraph assumes that a person has Nine Centers, where the distribution and transformation of all the energy necessary for the human body for a full and high-quality life take place. Each of the Centers has its own area of responsibility.
Manifestation center or the Throat Center allows the human mind to manifest itself in physical terms as a “voice” or action. It is the Throat Center that speaks out our thoughts, facilitates verbal communication and makes the interaction between individuals easier.
Pressure centers: Head and Root make us “know” (think) and “do” (survive). They also direct energy into three Centers of Awareness. The root pressure provides an adrenaline rush, which is the trigger for moving forward.
Centers of Mindfulness: Ajna, Splenic and Solar Plexus Centers interpret our experience as awareness of mind, body and spirit. But, only after reaching the Throat Center, awareness becomes the property of our consciousness and mind.
Motor Energy Centers: Root (impulse for movement), Sacral (creative vitality), Heart (willpower) and Solar plexus (desire for new experience). All of them ensure our survival on the material level.
G Center – House of the Higher Self… This is the place where individual energy merges with the flow of all life – the umbilical cord of the connection with the Universe.
There are both defined and open Centers in the Bodygraph. Defined Centers are already busy performing the functions assigned to them, while the Open Centers are completely open to outside influence and are the initiators of conditioning. Such behavior of theirs cannot be viewed from the point of view of “good or bad”. Open Centers is a school in which we learn to recognize conditioning and understand how it affects our lives.
For many millennia, the mind played a strategic role in making decisions and managing the course of life, but for a modern person, it should only be a servant of a source of wisdom and inspiration, and not in any way the ruler of the destinies. The mind ceased to be the inner Authority for the new form, and this created a strong tension and misunderstanding between the true and false Self.
As soon as Consciousness (soul) manifests itself in the embryo of a child, it immediately gets to know its new body and tries to take on the role of a leader. Having settled in the Partial Center, our personality tries to control life, not realizing that the form (body) that it inherited is no longer the same as that of our predecessors before 1781, but many times wiser. If in the Hindu system a person had a 7-center form for life, now it is a 9-center one. Therefore, evolution insists that human learns to surrender to their inner authority, which is in tune with the sacred geometry in the universe.
Our mind, not understanding this and not reckoning with it, continues to guide our life, but in the new realities its potential is no longer enough to make correct decisions. If we could make the mind our ally and a kind of outside observer, we could take full advantage of its creative power and enjoy the taste of life without fear.
The mind of an adult is a conglomerate of attitudes received from childhood. The Open Centers of a person are filled with nothing more than the determinations of other people. Parents, caregivers, friends – we are constantly exposed to their energies. They place their expectations on us, and we try to live up to them. As a result, the true self is buried under the layers of social and family conditioning. We begin to confuse our true self, which is initially defined and stable, with the experience gained through our openness (open centers, channels, gates).
If we make decisions with the mind, based on the acquired experience, then the open centers turn, as it were, into a component of the mind of the False Self. We set ourselves goals that do not correspond to our purpose, and in making decisions, we rely on illusory desires. As a result, we are forced to live not our own lives, while experiencing constant fatigue, irritation, and bitterness of disappointment.
Every decision we make either brings us closer to our true nature, or leads us away from the right path, and conditioning plays a fatal role here. Since there are many more uncertain places on our map than certain ones, openness seriously weighs on our mind. Fortunately, there is our inner Authority and Strategy, which, bypassing the illusory conviction of the mind, guide us on the right path, generating a state of awareness.
Open Centers are the most vulnerable points. As long as the mind uses them to create its own strategies, we gain the necessary experience, but as soon as defensive strategies turn into ossified behavioral habits, we become completely dependent on them.
The Human Design System allows us to understand the reasons for our “bad” habits, and come to the understanding that Open Centers are sources for new research and achievements, which later turn into wisdom, and our openness is a blessing given to us by the Universe. We draw wisdom from our openness, from all Open Centers, channels, and gates.
A detailed analysis of the personal Bodygraph allows us to discover the connection between our mind, suffering and Open Centers.
For example, consider the behavior of an abstract woman. The Open Splenic Center, in charge of security, makes her seek refuge in stability, not allowing her to leave her unloved work, to break up a relationship she’s sick and tired of. An open Heart Center conditions her to continually prove her attractiveness, sexuality, and loyalty. To increase her value, she has to make promises she cannot fulfill, which ultimately leads to low self-esteem.
At this time, an undefined Head Center is busy with unnecessary thoughts. It tries to solve other people’s problems and more and more confuses. The Root Center makes you force events in order to get rid of an endless series of affairs and feel free. As a result, she lives a boring and hectic life, full of disappointment and resentment.
Only transformation and awareness can change destiny, and for this, you need to slowly but inevitably give up the Authority of the mind in favor of the Authority of the form (body). The mind must become a conscious observer, patiently awaiting the decision of a higher authority.
Defined center: The connection of two gates by a channel creates a defined center. For instance, Alpha channel (7th and 31st gates) define the Throat and G Centers, and the formed Channel of Initiation (51st and 25th gates) define the Heart and G Centers. It follows from this that a Defined Center forms a distribution hub that controls a constant and reliable energy flow within us. Certainty is the frequency of the energy of our differentiated self.
The open center forms the most vulnerable points in which we are open to both new experience and conditioning forces. An Open Center can consist of one or several “sleeping” gates (conscious – black, subconscious – red). “Sleeping” gates filter the energy entering the UC, thanks to them we become more clearly aware of the presence of this center within us.
A completely open Center is a special case. The complete absence of any clues to react may block our access to the energy flowing through this point. However, the contrary is also true. The absence of “sleeping” gates removes the filter from the energy flow, and we gain access to the entire frequency spectrum of this center, which provides us with a unique chance to gain a new and important experience that will spiritually enrich and uplift us.
You can learn more about Defined and Open Centers and the opportunities they give you by reading about each of them separately.
Subject: Communication and Manifestation Function: Metamorphoses and transformation through interaction with the world Biological conformity The Throat Center is directly connected with the endocrine system, which is responsible for transformation and metamorphosis, and monitors our metabolism. It is she who regulates energy exchange, determines our appearance and mobility: what we are – small or large, full or…
Subject: Mental Pressure Function: Inspiration Implementation: Questions, doubts, confusion Biological compliance Since the Crown Center is closely connected with the pineal gland (pineal gland), it is responsible for similar processes occurring in our body. The main function of the Crown Center is to provide a continuous flow of information between the neocortex and the gray areas of…
Subject: Physical adrenaline pressure Function: The driving force of life Implementation: Stress Biological compliance The Root Center is closely connected with the adrenaline system, together with which it performs one of the most important biological functions – the production of stress hormones. As much as we would like, but it is impossible to avoid stress. Any event or action necessarily…
Subject: Mental awareness Function: Conceptualization, interpretation Implementation: Answers in the form of opinions, concepts and theories Biological compliance At the mental level, the Ajna Center duplicates the biological functions of the visual cortex (processing visual information), the neocortex (the formation of complex forms of behavior) and the pituitary gland, which is responsible for the growth and development of…
Subject: Spirit Consciousness Function: Social and Emotional Awareness Implementation: Passion, Desire, Mood, Sensuality Biological compliance The Solar Plexus Center at the mental level oversees the work of the lungs, kidneys, pancreas and prostate glands, and also closely connected with our entire nervous system. When a person is bathed in positive emotions, boldly looks to the future, then, as…
Subject: Willpower Function: Material World Implementation: Ego Biological compliance The Heart Center unites under its protectorate only four gates, which are connected with the heart (21 Hunter’s Gate), the stomach (40 the Gate of Solitude), the thymus (26 the Egoist’s Gate) and the gallbladder (51 Shock’s Gate). Those who neglect the work of this Center, as a rule, are…
Subject: Power of Fertility Function: Life Energy Implementation: Sexuality, Accessibility, Responsiveness Biological conformity The Sacral Center is closely connected with the reproductive system of the human body, which maintains the survival of our species through the reproduction of offspring. The Sacral Center itself obliges us not only to “multiply and multiply”, but also to take care of our offspring,…
Subject: Love, Identity, Direction Function: Your Life Compass Implementation: Higher Self Biological conformity Physiologically, the G Center mentally duplicates the activity of the liver and circulatory system and plays an extremely important role in the incarnation process. Magnetic Monopole, being one of the main components of the G Center, has a single pole that is tuned to attract the…
Subject: Body Consciousness Function: Maintaining immunity and intuition Implementation: Health and Wellness, Values, Immune System Biological compliance The spleen with its T-lymphocytes is the basis of our immune system, which is responsible for our health with you, and the Splenic Center, closely connected with it, is the mental control panel for all systems of the human body, which…